The second stage of the NBA 2k League Draft process begins Saturday with the NBA 2k League Combine.

The Combine will run from Dec. 8 to 28. Every day will have specific qualifying time windows.

The Combine is open to players who successfully completed the qualifying process in November. Qualifying ran from Nov. 2 to 27. Players were required to win 100 games in Pro-Am mode, while winning 50 percent of their games.

During the combine, players will compete using one of five positions: point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center. Each position has specific archetypes such as a playmaking point guard, or a rebounding-stretch power forward. All archetypes will have 90 overall skill ratings.

A scene during the NBA 2K League Tip Off Tournament on May 4, 2018, at Brooklyn Studios in Long Island City, New York.(Photo: Michelle Farsi, NBAE/Getty Images)

Players need to complete a minimum of 40 games to become eligible for the player draft pool. At least 150 players will be added to the player pool. Free agent players from last season will also return to the draft pool.

Pacers Gaming won't have a first-round pick after moving it in one of the league's first trades. The Pacers traded the fourth overall pick to PistonsGT for shooting guard Ramo "Lets Get it Ramo" Radoncic. The draft is four rounds long.

Pacers Gaming coach and Evansville native Cody Parrent said the team is looking for three players to fill out its six-player roster. They're targeting a point guard, a big man and a player to add to the rotation as a sixth man.

The Pacers finished 5-9 last season and missed the playoffs. Potential draft picks need to be more than just button pushers to make the league.

"We're looking for someone who has experience on teams before," Parrent said. "Traditional sports teams would be great. Maybe they were even an athlete in high school or college. Some of the best players in our league played basketball in college."

Players such as league MVP Dayne "OneWildWalnut" Downey of Blazers Gaming. Downey was a former junior college basketball player who ended his hoops dreams to pursue professional video games.

Parrent added that roughly 70 percent of playing 2k professionally is about actually playing the game. The ability to work as part of a team, execute plays and understand what opposing teams are trying do separates the casual player from the pro,

"We're in the film room, there's a white board, we're walking through plays. It's all the basketball lingo," he said. "It's help defense, off-ball screens — it's all those things. You have to understand how real basketball works."

After the combine ends an evaluation process begins. The top 200 players will advance to the interview stage. After the interview stage, the top 150 players will become eligible for the draft.

Heading into year two, the league added four new teams: Lakers Gaming, Nets GC, Hawks Talon GC and T-wolves Gaming, moving the total numbers of teams to 21.

Parrent said league managing director Brendan Donohue has traveled to Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore with eyes on global expansion.

With the rise of Esports across the gaming spectrum, the future appears bright for the NBA 2k League.

"It's the one league that anyone can play in. Male or female, from all over the world," Parrent said. "Anyone can try out and make our league. It's special and unique. It provides an opportunity that no other league in the world can."